Digital Pacific has discovered a major fault in one of the UPS units and will be performing an emergency power operation in DC tomorrow morning (October 14th 2009) between 6:00am and 6:30am.

I have no idea whether there is any connection however what has happened is that first the forum (and entire site) was offline due to too many connections. This is not the first time and has been highlighted a few times however I can't track this further and the host doesn't know what is causing it. catch 22. The second issue is that somehow the database has become corrupt (hence error messages when posting). I was able to run a repair and fix it - and feel that the error has a connection with either or both of the afore mentioned problems.

Sorry it was not possible to resolve sooner - I wasn't online. I am now looking into solutions so that these problems don't plague us.

There was an error in one database - which stores the post. I don't know why or how, just that posting was not possible - though PMs were working. The other error (forum offline) was temporary and was for about 10 minutes - and would have affected the entire site (site + forum).

Well the error was related to a duplicate primary key, so it could have been something along the lines of the MYSQL server auto_increment wasn't working for the post table. As well all know you can't have duplicate primary keys in the one table